Tennessee Williams and the South
By: by Kenneth Holditch and Richard Freeman Leavitt.
Contributors: Leavitt, Richard F.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Knowledge -- Southern States.; Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Southern States -- In literature.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Tennessee Williams remarked on several occasions that the farther South one went in America, the more congenial life became. Though he sojourned elsewhere, he embraced the South, the region of his birth, as his creative homeland. Few writers have been more closely connected with it than he. He wrote, he said, not only of the present but also of the past and of a South that had no counterpart anywhere else.".

"Combining his words with pictures, this biographical album reveals the closeness of Williams with the American South. Although he roamed far, he never forgot the "more congenial climate" the South afforded him and his creativity.".

"His characters - Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, Alma Winemiller in Summer and Smoke, and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire - have outlived the southern past in which they had been at home. Unlike them, despite the South's industrial transformation, Williams always found the South his own.".

"This book underscores that intimate connection by featuring photographs of people and places that influenced him. Enhanced with a long essay and captioned with quotations from Williams's plays, memoirs, and letters, more than one hundred pictures document the keen sense of place that he felt throughout his life and career."--BOOK JACKET.